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19 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGy KffW YORK, SUNDAY, JAKTJABY 28, 1900. 7 Elizabeth Merrill of East Orange, Mrs. IH CivtfjOttg Day. BROOKLYN SOCIETY. banquet of Marquette Council o.

2S8. Knights of Columbus, will be held at Schwaben Hall, Knickerbocker and Myrtle avenues, on Tuesday evening, beginning at fi o'clock. Morning Star Council No. CSO. II.

will hold Its twenty llrst annual entertainment and reception nt tho Johnston Building on AVednesday evening, February 21. Institute Alumnae dance, Berkeley Institute. Wednesday, February 14 Evening, dance given by Mrs. Robert Galr at the Pouch Gallery; dance given by Mrs. John Beardsley and Mrs.

John Gledhill, Midwood Club, Flatbush; second Bedford Heights cotillon, at Mrs. W. H. Lyon's, 170 New York avenue; wedding of Miss Lillian Felton Balsqm and William Henry Beaman Du Mont, 420 ClasBon avenue, o'clock. Thursday, February 15 Evening, wedding of Miss Sarah Kelley and Alexander Relyea Wbittakcr.

247 Hancock street, 8 o'clock. Friday, February 23 Evening, third Hanover subscription dance, Hanover Club; Ain phictyonla dance, Germania Club. Tuesday. February 27 Evening, public concert, Brooklyn Amateur Musical Club; second of the Rough Rider dances, Riding and Driving Club. Interest will be felt in yet another new subscription dance, this the dance of the High School Chapter of the Neighborship Association, to be given at Pratt Institute on Friday, February 2.

The subscription list is limited, as well as the hours of dancing, as It may well be termed "small and early." The com mittee in charge of the arrangements include: Miss Conover, Miss Warner, Miss Farr, Miss Harriot, Miss Michaelis, Miss Sinnott and Mrs. Knapp. The subscription list of the last of the Twenty ninth Dances, which is one of the events of the social programme for to morrow night, has had to be closed in short order, because of the sheer impossibility of being able to get any more men and girls into the rooms. As it is now, it will be a big dance. The plea of holding this last meet at the Farm House has succeeded well.

Among those who will be present are the Misses May Merritt, Ethel SchoSeld, Mabel B. Fowkes, Helen M. Daniel of Philadelphia, Grace F. Richardson, Jeannette Elwell Tyler, Dallas Huntington Rogers, Sarah Stokes Daniel of Philadelphia, Mildred C. Holian, Phebe Combes, Maud arid Velie Curtis of Hartford Experience is the Best Teacher' The experience of millions has demonstrated that Hood' Ss.rsa.parill& is tlve perfect remedy for all troubles of the blood, stomach, nerves, bawelsAeaer and kidneys, and that it imparts strength, vigor and vitality.

Every testimonial is the "voice of experience to you. 'Remember the farce ol a man suing himself. When tho directors in office at the time are the same ones who committed the. breach bf. trtlst or fraud for which the.

suit is to brought. the law does not permit the suggestion that tho aggrieved stockholder must request them to bring it, much less that they would ba permitted to bring it at all, or. without request. Oa the contrary, the stockholder may bring it. It is pitUul to, quota authority for a thing that every layman might well assumed to know; but the last time the Court ot Appeals said anything on the point "it was this, in Sage against Culver (147 i "Where the corporation is exclusively under the control of the trustees and officers w'hosa acts and management are a demand that the corporation bring the: actior would be idle and fruitless, and in such cases equity permits the stockholder to bring th action in his own name." 1 Reason No.

2. "We are of the opinion that it was not within the power' oi the court (below) to fix even a gross, sum to be divided! as salaries among the directors and OuBcera, for this is a'matter within the powers of th directors themselves, subject of course a review and approval or disapproval of a 'court of equity." Well, well, well. Just read it again. These three directors voted themselves $15,000. The trial court held all over to be excessive, and gave judgment restraining them from drawing such excess, and) requiring them to put back into the treasury an amount they had wrongfully drawn This was all wrong (says the learned appellate opinion) because the fixing of their salaries "was within the power of the directors themselves," but "subject, of course, to review" of a court of equity.

And hadn't they fixe their salaries, and wasn't the court of equity reviewing their act, and did it not have to decide whether the amount was excessive, and if so how much, and how much had to 'be refunded? In the Royal Baking' Powder'Co. case (32 Hua, 3S5) exactly that was done'. 'Sal aries of 5100,500 were declared, excessive; all over $27,000 was declared excessive; and. tha guilty trustees were from 'drawing more than that sum, and were required to refund an amount drawn in xcess What else could the court do It anything? And one of the judges who sat In the learned Appellate Division on widow Fitehett's case was the judge who tried tho Royal Baking Powder Co. case, his judgment' being affirmed on appeal.

Did he know that such an opinion was to be given certainly could not have represented his judgment. Reason No. 3. "We think, also; that instead ot allowing the defendants to retain: the moneys received by them between the date of Fitehett's exclusion from the affairs of the company, namely, April 8, 1897, and the date of the trial, namely," June 27, 1899, the judgment should have compelled an accounting from the first date." In plain words, a reason given for reversing Mrs. Fitehett's judgment was that Instead of asking that the three directors refund all they took, she was willing to let the past go, and make them refund from the date of tne trial only, and stop their fraudulent conduct for the future.

Because she did not ask for as much as she could get, over goes her judgment, money so far spent out of her scanty means to prosecute her suit in the hope of preventing herself from being robbed, is all thrown away. But, it may be asked, if the trial court could not lawfully fix tho amount which the salaries should not exceed (as the learned opinion had already said), on what basis could it fix any amount to be refunded? Reason No. 4. "It is not alleged (in the complaint) that he '(Fitchett) was the owner and holder of the stock at the time of his decease, or that the plaintiff (his widow as his administratrix i3 such owner; nor doea the plaintiff offer any testimony to supply this defect." There is some truth in. this; but let us see what use is made of it.

The complaint alleges how Fitchett and the othefsfin corporated the company in lS94; and then gives a circumstantial' statement showing the. stockholders and officers' of the company down, to May 1. 1SS7, Fitchett, the said three defendants and another. It alleges the deatht of Fitchett a month later, and the appointment of his widow, the plaintiff, as administratrix. The answer admits all these things.

The minutes and book3 of the company were introduced showing the same thing; The record of the case shows that no point was raised at any Etage of. the trial that Fitchett tiros not a stockholder at his death. No such! thing was suggested. No one questioned the fact. The company's books and no doubt the stock book were in court.

The. mo.tioa by the defendants for judgment was made on the sole ground that there was "no proof of wrongful acts," and no request was made for a finding that Fitchett did not own. the stoclc at his death. Counsel would have beea ashamed to suggest that Fitchett did not own. the stock.

Indeed he would have been ashamed to suggest that the presumption of law waa that he had sold it between May 1st and June 8th. when he died. The presumption of law! is the direct contrary. The rule is known to every lawyer, that (as Greenleaf says) "when the existence of a person, of a personal relation, or a state of things is once established by proof, the law presumes that the person, relation or state of things continues to exist as before until the contrary is shown." And then the author gives examples, like the pre sumjjtion that "a partnership, or other similar relation, once shown, to continues (22 Barb. 5 16); that "when personal property has been shown to belong to a prior to his death, It will be presumed to have been his property at his and so on.

But the contrary presumption, the one th law does not tolerate, was eagerly indulged in to beat widow Fitchett. And the complaint could be made to conform to the proof on appeal. But no; that would save the widow Fitehett's judgment. That would never do. "We" must show our.

learning and all thorlty. And what about the widow Fitchett nowT Why she quit. She had to, It costs money to go up and down to the learned Appellate Division. It is no joke, no matter how much of a joke the law as they lay it dowm may be. The widow Fitchett "had" to quit.

She's licked, and the pretense of the' learned opinion in her favor is to her a hollow sham. FOET GREENE BRANCH, L. C. B. A.

Mrs. Jennie V. Rice instituted her fourth, of the flourishing women's orders InSt Thursday In the Johnston Building. Supremo Treasurer Mrs. John Costelloe being the graceful institulns official.

She paid, a compliment to the indefatigable energy of' Mrs. Rice and said that she had the best Wishes of all the sisters with whom she hits ueen associated. Her first branch was; estahllsehd in Jersey City, then she started a very successful one In East New York. Sho. was a charter member and, helped, to organized.

'St. Augustine's branch and was itS first past president, and now she has launchedtiFjirt Greene branch successfully with Miss Eaaaa as president. 44 William Hamilton Van Kleeck, Mrs. James Watt, Mrs. S.

Van Bruen Brewster, Miss Richardson and Miss Helen Cuidsey of Eas ton. Another reception of yesterday, was that of Mrs. Thomas Dean and Mrs. Henry Lloyd Dean, 238 Sixth avenue, from until 7. Miss Carol Messinger, who formerly lived on South Oxford street, will be very well recalled, and news of her will be ot moment to many Brooklynites.

Her engagement has Just been announced, her fiance being "William H. P. Bacon of the Borough of Man hattan, a Seventh Regiment' man. One of the near by events is Franklin Sonn akalb's concert and recital at the Pierrepont Assembly Rooms on the evening of Tuesday, February 6, which is given a social touch from the fact that his appearance is "tinder the auspices of the Southern Society ot Brooklyn. The programme Is to be a very good one and will Include a vocalist and violinist of some note.

Mr. Sonnakalb is a composer as well as a pianist, and is to give a series of musicales at the JValdorf Astoria during Lent. He has only appeared in this borough before the Soutb'ern Society. Mrs. George Wlngate entertained the members of the Long Island Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution at her home, 1,100 Dean street, last Saturday.

Miss Louise Wlngate assisting her In receiving. During the afternoon the Rev. John White ChaJwick read an able paper on "The True Washington." Miss Gelston described her success in hospital work in connection with the chapter and reported that the book case, donated by Mrs. J. D.

Prince and Miss Ditmas of Flatbush, to the Fort Hamilton Hospital, was now filled with the bound books, presented by the chapter. Miss M. A. Foote presented a paper in which she urgently advocated the organization of a "Juvenile History Club" In Public Schools and in the Junior Daughters of the Revolution. Miss Wingate who is a pupil of Joseffy, rendered two compositions of Schumann and Mme.

Schultze of the Borough of Manhattan, sang among her selections the "Erl Those present included Mrs. D. C. Carr, Mrs. John W.

Chadwick, Mrs. Andrew Jacobs, Mrs. J. P. Gerau, Mrs.

Henry Jones, Mrs. J. D. Prince," Mrs. Holman, Mrs.

C. C. Whitney, Mrs. Thomas Mook, Mrs. George Schaumberg, Mrs.

Henry Sanger Snow, Miss Josephine Anderson, Miss Louise Bennett, Mrs. W. Bennett, Miss Evelyn Baker Stanley, Mra. J. V.

B. Prince, Miss Lizzie, Peck, Miss M. J. Averill, Mrs. Clarkeon, Mrs.

Henson, Mrs. Oscar Lyle, Mrs. F. W. Starr.

Mrs! Stuart Church, Mifis. Butterick, Mrs. Alexis Smith, Miss Bessie Locke, Miss Ditmas, Mre. Peter Austin, Mrs. M.

Smith, Mies Helen Wood, Mrs. John Watson and Mrs. Matson. Prom week at Tale, to Judge from all reports, proved one of the best in years. Sunday night the Brooklyn people who Journeyed to New Haven enjoyed a musicale, on Monday the Banjo and Glee Club's concert and cotillons at the "different college houses, on Tuesday the Junior Ball.

The decoration here were yellow and white, the entire walls being paneled with tapestries and boxes built around three sides ot the armory. Dancing broke up at 4:30 and then came the dawn teas, to which almost all went. No one knows what a dance really Is, it is said, until they have attended a college prom. Some Brooklyn people seen there were Mre. Francis Walter Coler, Miss Louise Brown, Mrs.

West Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. St. John Wood, Mrs. Herbert Betts, Miss Jennie Edwards and Mies Anne Hallock.

Mies Dalton and Miss Duryea of 3 Montague terrace announce the evening of February 8 (Thursday). The invitations read: "Cards and Dancing." Recent entertainments of especial importance have been four in number. On Thursday day evening Mrs. Ira Ayer of 37 Cambridge place gave a musicale. There was an excellent programme, the talent comprising Miss Regina Dooley, soprano; Miss A.

Jessie Lid dell, alto; Miss Jennie J. Ayer, alto, James F. McCarthy, bass; M. B. De Bar, baritone, and Signor R.

E. De Stefani. Also on Thursday look place the musicale and reception of the Golden Anniversary Jubilee of the Church of the Messiah at the Pouch Gallery. The artists included Dr. Victor Baillard, Miss Agnes Anderson and John Petersen.

Among the patronesses and those serving on the committee were: Mm. John A. Nichols, Mrs. WilUam H. Wallace, Mrs.

Charles Marvin Howard, Mrs. Samuel Doughty, Mrs. Francis L. Noble, Mrs. St.

Clair Hester, Mrs. Wililam C. Wallace, Mrs. C. C.

Whitney, Mrs. Vincent Loeser, Miss Edith Frost, Miss Martha Walker, Miss Susie Dane. At the residence of Miss Mary Byrne, 38 Garden place, on Monday morning occurred a musicale of the Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club, that reached a high point of artistic excellence. The features of the morning were a paper on "The Music of Romance," by Miss Alice Campbell, and songs by Miss Fay Randall, Percy Stevens and Miss Byrne. Victor Harris was accompanist.

There was a wide range of selections, including several quaint old melodies and some very modern music. Miss Byrne is one of the most remarkable of, the amateur singers of Brooklyn, and she is seldom heard to as good advantage as she was on Monday. Medhiemalis, the dance at the St. George on Friday, scored a little triumph of Its own. It proved an exceedingly pretty and interesting dance, and was much enjoyed.

The dancers were the younger set of Stuyvesant Heights. Mrs. Benjamin Cox, Mrs. Marcus J. Brlssel, Mrs.

John G. Stull and Mrs. William B. Stout were its patronesses. The chief events from now to the end of February are these: Monday, January 29 Afternoon, third private concert of the Brooklyn Amateur Musical Club, Pierrepont Assembly Rooms.

Evening, third and last of the Twenty ninth dances, Farm House. Tuesday, January 30 Afternoon, wedding of Miss Leslie Whitman and Frederick Denting Sherman, First Presbyterian Church, 5 o'clock. Wednesday, January 31 Afternoon and evening, second reception Mr. and Mrs. Lowell M.

Palmer, 855 Prospect place. Evening, wedding of Miss Agnes Thomas and Russell Wells Whitlatch, 44 Sterling place, 8:30 o'clock. Thursday, February 1 Afternoon, debut of Miss Mabel Healy. 26 South Oxford street. Evening, subscription dances (the third each) of the Flatbush Assembly, Knickerbocker Field Club house, and the Thursday Evening at the Pierrepont Assembly Rooms.

Friday, February 2 Evening, third of the Friday evening dances, Pierrepont Assembly Rooms; dance for Miss Louise Brown, SS3 Union street. Saturday, February 3 Afternoon, reception, Mrs. Albert Gould Jennings, 2 East Eighty second street, from 5 to 7. Tuesday, February 6 Evening, concert of the Stevens' Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, Pouch Gallery. Wednesday, February 7 Evening, dance for Miss Beatrice Barnes, Pierrepont Assembly Rooms.

Thursday, February 8 Evening, Dewey Union League Club. February 9 Evening, third and last Cinderella, Pierrepont Assembly Rooms. Monday, February 12 Evening, subscrip tion dance at the Mansion House. Tuesday, February 13 Evening, Berkeley and there have sat The llvo lons day, with patient To see great Pompey pass. Julius Caesar, Act 1, Sceno 1.

Did you notice how the newspaper artists, while Bryan was in this city, made him look like an old faBhloned tragedian? When I asked a man this question, he replied: "No, tiut I did see how they made him look like a modern comedian." The latest fashion in men's wear: Tan shoes on one end, a high silk hat on the other and a gray business suit between. This Is what Count Boni de Castellane woro when he called at the office of his brother in law in lower Broadway the day after he arrived from Paris. It seems to be pretty difficult for men to do work in this city with the subdivisions of labor and the rules regulating the conditions on which a man may do certain kinds of work. Last Monday a contractor who fs building a large office structure near the Borough Hall was in court on the charge of running a hoisting engine without an en gineer's license. He had discharged his engineer for intoxication, and it was necessary to do some hoisting, so he ran the engine himself rather than order his force of men to stop work and dock them for two or three hours' pay.

He understood the engine well enough to operate it, but he had not the nec essary permit from the officials, so the courts must be used for disposing of his case. When arraigned, he declared that he could run an engine, but he was held to await the action of the Court of Special Sessions. I suppose the licensed engineers must be protected. Another case: The varnlshers employed on a new house in Manhattan struck because the painters were allowed to do varnishing. The painters were ordered to do nothing, but paint, and then they struck because the var nlshers had been put on the work that they had been doing, and for anything that 1 know the painters and varnlshers are still seesawing in thii way and the work is at a standstill.

Isn't it all ridiculous when you think of It. A text for the reformers: Ruskin's father Was a wine merchant, while Ruskin was one of the most distinguished and vigorous preachers of righteousness in the world for two generations. The fact, however, that almost the last meal that Ruskin ate was washed down with champagne may make the text less valuable than it would otherwise be for the purpose of pointing a moral and and adorning a tale. The persistence with which people who are afraid to sign their names to their opinions continue to bombard newspaper offices with criticisms is one of the queerest freaks in human nature. I confess that I share the healthy contempt of Captain Price of the Detective Bureau for what he calls "anonyms" and in a newspaper office one comes to know full as much about them as in a detective bureau.

The latest to come to my notice is a man who tears the letter head off his note paper lest tho letter may be traced to him and then writes that unless a recent editorial "is rebuked or explained I shall regard the Eagle as an enemy of the Divine Master." I can understand how a man who can use the signature, "Old Brooklynite," and so should know something about the Eagle, might be ashamed to put his name, even for purposes of identification, to a sentence like that. But, unless his championship of any cause that ho has at heart is bolder than his dislike of the Eagle. I fall to see how he can do it much good. One of the quietest and most inoffensive men I ever knew has turned reformer. I have often heard hfm splutter about the selfishness of women who occupy two seals in street cars while other women stand, but I was utterly unprepared for the moral heroism with which he rebuked that practice the other day.

Two women entered a car which seemed to be full, but was not. There was a little delay in the moving up process until seats were made for them and my friend did not like the in which they accepted the accommodation. Presently a third woman came in and stood. Then a man next the two women sitting left the car. The third woman was standing, looking out of the front door, and did not see the vacant seat.

The two women seated promptly spread themselves over the extra space and by the time the woman, standing looked around there was no seat visible. My friend was equal to the emergency. Lifting his hat he asked her to take his seat. She did so. Then he stepped across the aisle, and with tho remark, "There is another seat here, I believe," planted himself between the two offenders.

He is large and they were large. They were also wrathful, but helpless, and by no means equal to bearing pleasantly the amused glances of the passengers opposite. FAKIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. from the Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Rue Tailor made suit or tan cloth, with rever and collar of cream Ircc.

COMING EVENTS. The seventh annual banquet of the Manufacturers' Association ot Now York will be held nt tho Union League club nn Wednesday evening, February 7. The Twentieth Assembly District Democratic committee will fflvo nn entertainment "and pig ronst at Schwaben Hall, Myrtle nnrl Knickerbocker avenues, on Saturday ovenlnK next. Mrs. Lydln, Von Flnkelsteln Mountford will lecture on "Haunts and of Jesus" at tho Uvrnyctte Avenue Presbyterian Church to morrow evening.

Tho ninth concert, cake walk and ball given by Mrs. Delia Thompson will tuko place at H. Winder's Tcutonln Hall, corner of Harrison avenue and Bartlett street, on Monday eventng. Osceola Council. O.

U. A. will givo a progressive euchre on Wednesday evening at the Johnston Building. Tho second annual entertainment, reception' and A meeting of tho board of representatives of tho Brooklyn Teachers' Association will be held to morrow afternoon at Public School No. lii.

to consider legislation affecting educational interests In Brooklyn now pending before the Legislature. The gathering will be called to order at 4:13 P. M. A euchre and dance, under the auspices of the Itev. W.

J. Hill Sliver Jubilee Branch No. 3S9, Ladles' Catholic Benevolent Association, attached to St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, will ba held at tho Hotel St. George on Tuesday evening.

January 30, at o'clock. ERASMUS HALL DINNEB. Erasmus Hall High School had a progressive dinner Friday night at the Clarendon Hotel. It was a very interesting affair. Music was furnished by the school orchestra.

Speeches were made by Dr. Gunnison, the Rev. Richard Young, H. W. Maxwell, Mrs.

Pettenglll and others. BEYER HILEB. The marriage of George Dorrance Beyer to Miss Kathartne Lewis Hiler, one of the favorite girls on the Hill, took place "Wednesday evening, tho Rev. John F. Carson, D.

officiating. It was a quiet wedding. The only relative attending was Mr. Beyea. Palms and Flowers for Weddings, "At Homes, Teas," fresh from greenhouses, at moderate rates.

Skilled artists employed. Send for estimates to J. Condon, horticulturist, 724 Fifth av. Telephone 27 South. De.

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Goodsteln Son. 279 Bridge st. Don't miss the greatest modern "Health Help." Orangelne stops pain, colds, grip, seasickness; tones and strengthens body and nerves. E. Senholzi, 711 Fulton Street, practical furrier; remodeling and repairing done at reduced rates.

Furs stored. Notices received too late for tliis col umn rrlll be found on pasrc 42. ENGAGED. BEDFORD CHOKER Mrs. E.

D. Crolier of 55 St. Nicholas place announces the engagement ot her daughter. Miss ETHEL MASON CROKER to Mr. RUSSELL BOOTH BEDFORD of this city.

MABBIED, BROSSEAU NEWMAN On Wednesday. January 24. at St. Augustine's Church, by Rev. E.

W. McCarty, ELSIE F. NEWMAN of Brooklyn. N. and D.

C. BROSSEAU of Montreal, P. Q. No cards. McMURBAY HIGGINS On January 2T, 1900, at St.

Francis Xavier's Church, by the rector. Rev. David J. Hlckey, assisted by the Rev. Matthew J.

Flynn. GENEVIEVE, daughter of Mrs. Daniel Higglns. to WALTER J. McML'R RAY.

DIED. BAKER At the residence of uncle. Dr. Geo. H.

Doty. 243U Cumberland st, GEORGE CLIFTON BAKER, aged 19 yeare 11 months 21 days, of typhoid fever. Funer il Tuesday, January 30, at Crum Elbow, DutcheBS County. N. Y.

(Poughkeepsle papers please copy.) 27 2' BURNS At her residence, IS Hudson av, Brooklyn NT. Mrs. JANE E. BURNS, wife of Patrick Burns. Notice of funeral' hereafter.

BR I.N NAN On Jani.ary af.er a brief Illness, JAMES C. BRENNAN. aged 02. Funeral from his late residence, 55 Butler st, Monday, January 20, at 1 o'clock. CLARK On Wednesday, January 24, THOMAS C.

CLARK, beloved husband uf the late Ann F. Clark. Funeral from the residence of his niece. Mrs. Geo.

Llndley. 2C9 East Thirty first st. Vander veer Park, on Sunday, at 3 P. M. Relatives and friends, also members of St.

John's Chapel Council No. 1, C. B. are invited to attend. CUILTY On Friday, January 27.

1900, Mrs. I. GUILTY. Funeral services at her late residence, 29S Sack ett st, Monday, January 29. at 2:20 P.

M. Interment at Greenwood. 27 2 DEWEY At St. Gabrlel'd Sanitarium, Adirondack Mountains, on tho 24tli Colonel GEORGE M. DEWEY.

Burial In ColumbU3, O. EMMENS At her residence, 114 Second place, on Friday. January 2C, in tho 74th year of her age, CATHERINE, widow of the lata lamented Henry Emmens. Funeral on Sunday, at 2 P. M.

Interment Greenwood (New Y'ork papers please copy.) FARLEY 'On Thursday, January 23. 190U, JOSEPH J. FARLEY, beloved son of Patrick and Ann Farley, at his residence, 331 Bergen st, formerly 52S Warren st. Funeral Sunday, January 2S, 1900, 2:30 P. M.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. 2C 2 FESSENDEN Friday. January 2G, at his residence, 339 Washington av, Brooklyn, N. Rev. WILLIAM W.

FESSENDEN, In the SSth year of his age. Relatives and friends are invltea to attend the funeral services, at his late residence, on Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Interment at Brattleboro, Vt. HAWKINS On Friday. January 20, 1900.

HARRY beloved husband ot Kathleen Hawkins and son of the late John Hawkins, aged 24 years 10 months. Relatives and friends also Iolanthe Council, R. are Invited to attend the services at his late residence. 207 Fifty fourth st. on Sunday, at 5 P.

M. Interment on Monday, A. M. 2S 3 HECK Suddenly, on January 27, ADAM HECK, at Gates av. Notice of funeral later.

ALONE Rev. SYLVESTER, the month's mind requiem maSB for the late Father Malone will be said Monday morning, January 29, at 9:30, in the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Brooklyn. 27 2 McCREARY Funeral services of the late KATHARINE McCREARY, notice of whose death appeared In this column under date of January 20, will be held at her lato residence, 057 Ocean av, on Sunday. January 28, 1900, 2 P.

M. Interment in Greenwood at convenience of family. MORAN On Thursday, January 25, FRANK A. MOHAN, aged 39 years. Funeral services at his late residence, 295 Forty seventh st, Brooklyn, on Sunday, January 28, at 3 P.

M. Relatives and friends, also members of Crescent Encampment No. 20, Knights of St. John and are respectfully Invited. 20 3 NICOLLS At his residence.

232 Forty third st. Brooklyn. CHARLES NICOLLS. Funeral will take place at 2 P. II.

Sunday. 2Sth. Friends and relatives are respectl'ully Invited to attend. 27 2 PHILLIPS On Frlduy. 'January 20, suddenly, MARGARET, beloved wife ot Oeorge W.

rhllllps. Funeral services at her late residence, 1.4S1 Gates av, on Monday, at 7:30 P. M. Interment on Tuesday." Relatives and friends aro Invited to be present. PCOLE On Friday, January 26, MARIA wife of Eben Poole.

Funeral nervleo at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Robert Foster. 290 Adelphl st, Sunday, January 28, at 8 P. M. 27 2 PURVIS After a brief Illness nt her homo, 2S3 Adolphl st.

YAVINA, widow of the Rev. John Purvis. Funeral notice hereafter. (Stamford and Norwaik papers please copy.) RIMPO EDWARD R1MPO. aged 42 years.

Funeral service next Sunday nt 2:30 o'clock nt the First German Baptist Church of South Brooklyn. Prospect av, near Sixth. Friends are Invited to attend services. TRACY On January 23, JOHN T. TRACT, his residence, 200 Stockton st, Brooklyn.

at Funeral Sunday, January 23, at 2:30 o'clock. Relatives and friends Invited. 20 2 WALLACE Suddenly, nt Laurel Hill, L. on January 27, ARCHIE, Ron of the late Archibald and Mnrgaret Nsutloo oS funeral hereafter. the council in full comprises: Charles S.

Hoffman, James S. Swan, Harold Dwlght, Claflin Dwight, Frank B. Ogilvie, Frederick T. Sherman, Edward C. Ohl, Roswell S.

Nichols, Frederick L. Jahn, Charles B. Travis, Howard Hoffman, Sylvester J. Collins, Eugene M. Richmond, Richard Schermerhorn, Nelson Sherman, Arthur C.

Wilfred, Henry EJ Mattison, Clarence Webster, Joseph W. Greene, Dudley T. Upjohn, Frederick W. Bridge, Gustav W. Eggers, Frederick H.

Leg gett, William F. Leggett. 'The patronesses selected are: Mrs. Josiah T. Marean, Mrs.

Gustav A. Jahn, Mrs. William F. Lambert, Mrs. Edward L.

Kalbfleisch, Mrs. James Lefferts, Mrs. Charles A. H. de Szlge thy, Mrs.

James S. Swan, Mrs. Frederick T. Sherman, Mrs. Albert S.

Clement, Mrs. Henry E. Ide, Mrs. Julfan D. Fairchlld, Mrs.

Frank C. Swan, Mrs. Frederick A. Harter, Mrs. Frederick S.

Cowperthwalt, Mrs. L. Mortimer Snyder, Mrs. Theodore Henry Ormlston, Mrs. W.

H. B. Pratt. On the cards, arranged for the evening ot February 14 (Wednesday) there is another private dance of magnitude. This is to be given by Mrs.

Robert Gair of the Bedford Heights section. Its scene will be the Pouch Gallery, and it is certain to be a charmingly planned affair. Monday evening, February 12, is the date that has been set for the Mansion House subscription dance, spoken of in this column a week ago. The Invitations for this go out tomorrow. The popular Muller will furnish the music, and there are evidences that this dance is going to be a very great success.

Its patronesses will be: Mrs. W. B. Stevens, Mrs. J.

R. Couch, Mrs. H. M. Hubbard, Mrs.

J. C. Van Cleaf, Mrs. W. H.

Perrine, Mrs. Richard De Ronde, and the committee of the evening includes: Lea S. Herrick, William C. Duncan, Arthur Raborg Hunt, John Talcott, Valentine H. Seaman, jr.

This coming week will see a famous array of dancing class meets, in most cases the clos ing events of their season. To morrow even ing comes the final event of the Twenty ninth dances, this time at the Farm House. Thursday the Flatbush Assemblies and the Thurs day Evening dances of the Pierrepont Assem bly Rooms will each give its third function. Friday the third Friday Evening, now the senior dance of the set, will be danced, also in the Pierrepont Asesmbly Rooms. Arrangements have now been completed for the much awaited second Pouch subscription dance, the successor of the successful affair held on December 7.

Monday, February 26, will be the day of the second dance, which Is also to be the last for the season. Earlr hours will be the keynote of this dance. It Is to begin promptly at 9:30 and end at 1 o'clock. The patronesses will be Mra. J.

Elliot Lang staff, Mrs. George M. Fisher, Mrs. Baron White Gage, Mrs. H.

DcL. Randall and Mrs, Sarah M. Meacham. The committee will be almost the same as that for tho first dance. It comprises George Wheeler Meacham, Thomas F.

DIack, W. M. Donaldson, H. A. Clinkenbroomer, Edward H.

Wernberg, Charles S. Warren. Mrs. Frank Russell Baker of 540 Bedford avenue (Miss Louise Rawson Hayes that was) has sent out cards for the afternoon of Sat urday, February 10, from 4 until 7 o'clock. Friday Mrs.

Frederick William Moss of 33 Remsen street gave her last at home. Her receiving party comprised Miss Moss, Mrs. Charles Gambrill Baldwin, Mrs. Jonathan' Bulkley, Miss Dora Bulkley, Mrs. John E.

Leech, Mrs. John Notman, Mrs. John J. Van Nostrand, Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, Mrs.

John Lanman, Miss Seaman, Miss Alice Col ton. A reception of Wednesday afternoon that proved one of the events of the month was that given by Mrs. Cornelius Zabrlskie, 846 Carroll street. The Zabriskie residence. which is one of the most attractively planned dwellings on the Pari Slope, was prettily decked, its broad hallway especially rich In bankd of green.

The supper room gave a glimpse of pale yellow effects and the red coats of the musicians in an adjoining apart ment furnished another note of color. Mrs. Zabriskie was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Truman J. Backus, Mrs.

William Tod Helmuth and Mrs. Washington Roebling. These made up a reception party of no little importance and interest. The hostess Was gowned in mauve and white in broad stripes. Mrs.

Backus wore black lace over white, Mrs. Roebling a gray velvet gown embroidered with spangles and Mrs. Helmuth, black lace and pearl gray satin. Mrs. Helmuth also wore the club pins that have been presented to her by the federated clubs in the state.

A dinner followed the reception, those at the table in addition to the receiving' party being Dr. Backus, Henry Kelsey of Trenton, N. ex secretary of state of New Jersey, and Mrs. Kelsey; the Rev. Dr.

A. J. Lyman and Cornelius Zabriskie. Some of the guests of the afternoon were Mrs. H.

S. Anderson, Mrs. J. H. Burtis, Mrs.

Henry Beguelin, Mr. and Mrs. J. Burke, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Dudley Love, Mrs. C. T. Chrlstensen, Mrs. W.

M. Butler, Miss Barr, Miss Chrlstensen, Mrs. David A. Boody, Mrs. Sylvester Blood, Mrs.

David A. Bishop, Mrs. J. L. Scudder, president of the Jersey City Women's Club; Mrs.

James Demarest, Miss Maud Dorman, Mr. and MIbs Dutcher, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Symons, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kenyon, Mrs.

James Foster, Mrs. WUlard Fisk of Jersey City, Mrs. Edward M. Grout, Mr. Carl Flque, Mrs.

Edwin Knowles, Mrs. Andrew J. Perry, Mrs. Oeorge H. Prentiss, Mrs.

Russell Prentiss, Mrs. William Zlegler, Mrs. Franklin W. Hooper, Mrs. Charles H.

Terry, Miss Hoole, Mrs. F. Lupton, Mrs. F. H.

Wing, Mrs. H. T. Wing, Mrs. Charles T.

Young, Mrs. William Packer, Miss Packer, and from the Borough of Manhattan. Mts. Clarence Burns, Mrs. A.

M. Jones, Mrs. H. Hastings, Mrs. Leavenworth, Mrs.

W. C. Wentworth, Mrs. S. A.

Condlct. The first reception of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell M. Palmer, was another of the events of Wednesday afternoon.

It continued over into the evening and brought together a large number of people who were curious to see the new house at 855 Prospect place. Already In this column much has been said regarding this reception. The receiving party comprised, beside Mr. ami Mrs. Palmer, Mrs.

Lowell M. Palmer, whose gown was of lace and lavender satin; Mrs Perez Burr Buru ham, the bride's mother; Mrs. Dwight Black enstone, Mrs. A. V.

Foote. Miss Florence Palmer, Miss Luchen Hewitt and Miss Grace Palmer In white and Miss Lily Palmer, white over pink silk. Roses pink and red in the different rooms formed the decorations. Mrs. Henry Edwin Nesmlta and Miss Ne smith received yesterday afternoon at 2G5 Washington avenue from 4 until 7.

Mrs. Frederick D. "hcrman, Miss Sherman and MIbb Julia Watson Sherman wore "At Home," Wednesday afternoon at 205 Henry street. Mrs. John Lenord Merrill, of 478 Washington avontle, held her fourth and last reception Friday afternoon and evening, in the receiving party were Mrs.

William Allen Towner, jars. John L. Merrill ot East Orange, Miss Beatrice Barnca, Mlss Anne Towner, tatss Two events that will be long remembered have distinguished the latter days of this past week one, a dance of magnitude, the other a wedding of fashionable moment. Miss Edna S. Doughty, widely known in social and altruistic club circles, was tho bride, the dance, the Midwinter of the Polytechnic seniors, which, this January, In great part through the efforts of Henry Sanger Snow, the Polytechnic's new president, took on greater importance than ever before.

Hiss Doughty's wedding in tho Church of the Messiah on Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock brought together a distinguished company of Brooklyn people. Pink and white were its colors and the costuming of bride and maids was attractive in the extreme. The bride's frock was of white satin, with transparent yoke and sleeves. White orchids and lilies of the valley made, up her wedding flowers. Her maid of honor, her sister, Miss Olga Doughty, wore white crepe de chine and carried a bunch of pink roses.

The bridesmaids Miss Anna G. Chittenden, Miss Florence B. Marvin, Miss Helen Pratt, Miss Jean C. Palmer of Brooklyn and Miss Bessie Jones and Miss Mario Minor of the Borough of Manhattan were garbed in gowns of white liberty satin, likewise with transparent yoke and sleeves. These gowns had dainty touches of pale pink about them that added much to their attractiveness.

The maids of this wedding train wore short veils of tulle instead of hats and carried bridesmaids' roses and lilies of the valley. Herbert Howard Knox, the bridegroom, had as his attendants, David H. Miller, best man; Judson Lounsbery and James B. Douglas of Brooklyn, E. A.

McAlpin, Dr. Leonard W. Ely and Carroll J. Post, of the Borough of Manhattan, Philip Raflerty and William C. Dodd of Orange, N.

and Renwick B. Knox, his brother, of Duluth, Mich. There was one especial novelty in this wedding procession, the ushers not coming down the aisle, but meeting the bride and her feminine train at the chancel steps. The Rev. St.

Clair Hester conducted the ceremony, which had an especially fine choral service as a part and portion of it. The reception following at the home of Miss Doughty's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Doughty, 289 Washington avenue, was well attended. The news columns of last night's Eagle had much to say about the Polytechnic mid winter dance on Friday evening.

There Is much yet to bo told, however, since from many a point of view the dance was such a conspicuous success. Much art was expended on the decorations, these being the work of Abraham Straus. The palest tones of pink and green comprised the color scheme of the draperies. These fabrics were lavishly used to cover the ordinarily scholastic little adorned walls and for festooning and hinging doorways and arches. Palms, rugs, both under foot and on the corridor walls and twined smilax aided in working up a picture that was the acme of smartness.

The many rooms and corridors of the institute's first floor, the spacious gym, all this finely decked, provided an unusual stage for a dance. Only the Ihpetonga, now off the social programme, could have ventured to it. The guests supped in the old school chapel, at round tables that Beated eight. They promenaded in the corridors. In the dean's and president's rooms, and were presented to the patronesses in the Spicer Library.

The men had a snecial den provided for them in the senior study. They danced, in. ttie' gym nasium, the floor of which, after waxing, was put in fine dancing shape Friday afternoon by the simple expedient of turning a horde of freshmen 'loose upon it with a ball. "1900" in electricity was a feature of this dancing room, and along the gallery there shone out a row of brightly gleaming white and red bulbs. Palms, wild smilax and the pink and green decked this room.

The class pin adorned tho cover ot the dance orders. What was, perhaps, this dance's most remarkable characteristic was the way it attracted all the sets and brought into direct contrast the many society interests and elements of Brooklyn. The lion danced off with the lamb, and the lioness did likewise. President Henry Sanger Snow managed to arouse much interest on the Heights and to Include on his list of patronesses Mrs. Sturgis Coffin, Mrs.

Horace C. Du Val, Mrs. James W. Mac Bride, Mrs. John E.

Leach, Mrs. Alexander M. White, jr. (Mis3 Elsie Ogden, that was); Mrs. Daniel D.

Mangam, Mrs. Fritz Achelis; on his associate committee, H. Eve lyn Pierrepont. Dr. William B.

Brins made, Arthur Corlies, Howard J. Hazlchurst, Robins B. Woodward, Harold Tredway White, James F. Pierce, Mr. William 13.

Dudley. Others on these two lists representing other sections of the city were no less notable Mrs. Elijah R. Kennedy. Mrs.

J. Rogers Maxwell, Mrs. Lowell M. Palmer, and Tbomau A. Gardiner.

The class committee numbered: Walter H. Dougherty, chairman; Clayton M. Hamilton, Frederick H. Dassorl, Edward A. Chilner, Henry G.

Hartmann. Those present and not named above In cluded: Richard L. Edwards, Emil A. Tauch ert, Frank B. Ogilvie, Miss Anna E.

Steele, Dr. John R. Stivers, De Forest Candee, Miss Gladys Cooper, Miss Palmer, Miss Florence Moore, B. O. Litchfield, Louis H.

Emerson, Miss Lillian Main, Miss Alice Dougherty, Ralph I. Perry, Frederick T. Sherman, Miss M. Elolse Adams, Miss Helen F. Mac Manus, Charles C.

Putnam, Guy Carleton, Robert Valentine Matthews, Miss Elsie Mc Kee, Russell E. Prentiss, Bralnerd Kellogg, W. M. Grovenor, Frederick Wto Acker man, A. Rogers Lee, Frank W.

Chandler, Howard W. Loder, Scott Malhon, W. Rutger Planten, Ethan Allan, Townsend Cocks, Ster ling Sherman Beardsley, Mr. and Mrs. Will iam H.

Beardsley, Miss Ethel Baker, Miss Louise Brown, Guy H. Hubbard. Miss May Hueston, Frederick L. Jahn, W. P.

Henshaw, Miss E. V. Hoye, Allan Towl, Ver Valen House, Charles R. Wyckoff. Dr.

John R. Stivers, Lawrence Rhett, Miss Alice Pflzer, Miss Amy Dunlap, Miss Carrie, E. Hoyt, Miss Alice Pope, Miss Alice Gustln, Miss Ethel Keddie, Arthur Jones, W. M. Steele, Valentine H.

Seaman, Gus W. Eggers, Lincoln Burrows, Herbert S. Downs, A. Din gee, Rufus L. Scott, jr.

One of the dinners given 'before this dance was at the residence of Sterling Sherman Beardsloy, 470 Ocean avenue, Flatbush. It was very handsomely appointed. Mr. BeardB ley's guests were Miss Ethel Baker, Miss Louise Brown, Miss May Hueston, Guy H. Hubbard, Townsend Cocks and Mr.

and Mrs. William II. Beardsley. Into society life there has come a new dance on a large scale, planned for an annual event. It has been given the name of the Araphlcty onlc, a good old Grek title, and Its initial assembly will be held at the Germanla Club on the evening of Friday, February 23.

Probably no more important society enterprise has been started In Brooklyn for several years, since this is intended to be a fixture. Those of tho social world who have not altogether forgotten tholr Grecian, history may recall tho Amphlctyonlc Council of the classic age. The council was made up of deputies of twelvo Grecian tribes. The Brooklyn Amphlctyonlc will have a Council or Committee of twenty four, which, In a measure, represents the tribes of the borough. Cpuncll and patronesses together take in very nearly overy social set.

Jemco S. Swan, is the chairman, and Maybelie Burton, Maud Skidmore, Josie McKee, Florence Ferry of the Borough of Manhattan, May Wilson, Daisie Miller, Alys E. Harrison, A. Elizabeth Wilcox, Flora Sadler, Ida Ring, Miss Sweet of Syracuse, Miss Gray, Miss Mitchell of the Borough of Manhattan, Mrs. Malcolm McDougall, Walter Bartindale, Richard Dean Wrigley, Arthur Crane Hartich, William L.

Sweet, of Syracuse, Edward Worcester, Robert Orton Brown, Malcolm McDougall, Arthur L. Keysner, Franklin D. Mooney, James Lee Wiley, Frederick AVilliam Bridge, Joseph II. Beams, Clarence Heman Day, J. Herbert Heulat, Harmon Randolph, Dr.

Barnes, H. Thurston Huntting, Frederick Piatt, John C. Gledhill, Girard M. Wildes, Harold Sommers, J. Everett Pinckney, N.

D. Putnam, D. Hackstaff, Charles Cook, Addison Youngs Forshay, Cord Meyer, Mr. Barron, Rodney Thursby, William Wing, Percy T. Hill.

The Friday Afternoon Club of the Hill met on Friday afternoon, at the residence of Mre. Christine Moulin, 1,267 Bedford avenue, and enjoyed, from a social standpoint, the most successful meeting of the season. This club, which was organized this winter, has met with such favor that It was found necessary to add an extra table, although the membership had been limited. The prizes at the last meeting were most attractive, and were won by Mies Jessie Du bey, Miss Edith Tunison and Mrs. Edwin Ryder.

In addition to the former members, there were present Mre. Charles Hotchkiss, Mrs. Foote, Miss Maud Stover, Mrs. James Davies and Mrs. Allen.

teal Notes. Read how a learned Appellate Division gave Justice to the widow Fitchett. It may shake faith; but never mind a little thing like that; read the opinion in the case of the widow Fitchett, as administrator of her deceased husband, against Murphy, Link and Fay; and the American Bill Posting Company. Her husband, these three men, and another, five in all, owned all the stock of the said bill posting company. Up to April 13th, 1S97, the earnings of the company were regularly divided among the five stockholders in exact proportion to their holdings of stock.

On that date, however, the said three (Murphy, Link and Fay) having elected themselves the three and only directors of the company, voted themselves salaries aggregating 515,000 a year. The capital stock of the company was only $9,000. The result was that comparatively little was left for dividends. Fitchett dying about a month after this thing was done, his widow, as his administrator, brought suit against the said three directors (making the Company a defendant also) to have their act declared a breach ot trust and fraudulent against the other stockholders, and to obtain an injunction against their continuing to draw the so called salaries, and for restitution. The trial court decided that the action of the said directors was a breach of their trust and a fraud on the other stockholders; that some of them did nothing for their salaries; that the work done was not worth more than 55,000, and gave the judgment asked for.

"The opinion of the Appellate Division devotes a long stretch to showing what a fraud the three directors were engaged in. It recites facts to show their rascality, and says that in such facts "it is not difficult to discover a plan to 'freeze out' that It "is one of those cases where the majority stockholders have entered into a combination to control the affairs of the corporation for their own benefit, and in fraud of the rights of the and that "such a combination will always be a court of equity." And then it proceeds to administer the "rebuke" to the "freeze by reversing the judgment for the "frozen the widow Fitehett's judgment, which prevented her and her children from being robbed. The opinion assigns four learned grounds for reversal. "We" are led to a reversal ot too Judgment by "them" it says. And now let us see what they are.

Reason No. 1. "la the first place, there is no averment in the complaint or evidence in the record that the plaintiff or her Intestate ever applied to the corporation for redress. or to bring an action similar to the present oae." Now just think of that. The plaintiff (says the court) should have asked the three defendants who were Tobbing her, and through whom alone the corporation could hear, see or act, and to whom alone she could make such request, to go to work and sue themselves, and if they refused to do so, then, and not till then, she might sue them.

Yes; she should have asked them to sue themselves; to allege in their complaint against themselves that they were breakers ot their trust and defrauders of those for whom they were trustees; and to hire counsel at the com pany's expense, and instruct them with the facts, and send them into court to prove such charges and make such trustees refund what they had fraudulently taken, and take no more, while she sat in a baclc seat in the court room and looked on! If this were tho law, why not as well make another requirement, that she could not sue them until she had first requested thc to go into the back yard and kick themselves, and they had Tefused. Think of the law being privy to such a farce. But it is not. On the contrary, if they should, bring such a suit against themselves In the corporation's name It would be fraudulent and collusive, and the law would not suffer them to go on with It. It does not sutler.